Notices by nadja (dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at)

@ildottore am i … terminally online? :blobcatfearful:

@neil or just make sure that if you're born after 2011 your email is "JaneDoe98@hoster.tld". Probably works too.

@skinnylatte @julie but yes, that must have been an extraordinary case. When I founded my company we spend about 40 Minutes at the notary and she didn't read out most of the paperwork either. In fact a not insignificant amount of time was she and I going over the paperwork and verifying that my name was written correctly on all of it (it wasn't, not even close :blobcatfearful:), which I do apprechiate!

@skinnylatte @julie Well, can't say I mind techbro startups being delayed by pedantic bureaucrats :D

@skinnylatte @julie that is … absurd. And probably malice on at least one party in that equation, especially for company foundings a notary doesn't have to read out the whole contract, just a few mandated parts. That does take a few minutes, but nowhere near as long.

@julie @skinnylatte Notaries and state officials both (in some circumstances, the latter in fewer than the former).

@jwildeboer I can imagine that most tools won't like a "primary identifier" to be the empty string (even if the spec does allow it), but yes this would work somewhat better ^^

@jwildeboer That's fair. But standards set expectations, and I've been burned too many times by the well established tooling breaking because it didn't question the standard in the right places or (wrongly) assumed that some external system would do the proper sanitation of inputs. Maybe I'm just more jaded than is warranted :)

@jwildeboer I'm really not, but I'm confronted with the problem of my name breaking software like this very often. A MRZ not trying to contain the card holder's name is much more reasonable, but I have yet to see that. In fact, everywhere I see MRZ being mentioned as useful standard it states *the exact opposite*.

@jwildeboer Having read the transliteration rules: ah right, so I should put my name in there but it doesn't fit (lenght-wise) anyway and I have to (lossly!) mangle it to be possible to put it in there to begin with ^^'
Yeah the MRZ may be an international standard, but it's one of the ones we can just let die, don't you think? ^^
Names are complicated and this standard is from the time where white europeans wrote "international" standards because it included the germans (&not even the french).

@jwildeboer My name is valid Latin1 :)

@jwildeboer oh also there's a bug: If a family name has spaces it encodes them incorrectly (it puts a << instead of a < in the MRZ)

@jwildeboer I put my name in, it broke

@jwildeboer that'd be the smart move, yes. :P

@jwildeboer the problem is people want to put names there and it is *woefully* inadequate for containing names

@debacle @bootblackcub @prose Oh XMPP actually got itself reactions and replies. I'm positively surprised. Only took them, what, 15 years?

@lbja @debacle @bootblackcub @prose Is pull 706 merged yet? No? Yeah, I'm not buying the "improving existing internet standards" part. But hey, there are only 495 (published) XEPs yet, I'm sure that's much better for fragmentation!

@kris yeah no, XMPP does not have e2ee in group chats. It has 'encrypt your message to each recipient with OMEMO individually' in group chats which is laughable to anybody even remotely knowledgeable of cryptography. Not to mention that OMEMO is pretty bad on the best of days.
But sure sure, MLS will fix everything. Maybe I'll even see it deployed in my lifetime :)

@kris I mean true if you just don't have e2ee for chat rooms it's much easier to never have broken e2ee in chat rooms.

@bootblackcub In terms of E2EE both are pretty bad, but XMPP is *slightly* worse. If E2EE does not matter to you (likely since you're setting up your own server anyway), then it depends if you need 1:1 chats or want a good chat room experience. XMPP can not offer the latter, but is as a whole experience better for the first (although the protocol shows how incredibly dated it is in the features it plain does not have, like replies/threads or reactions).